My boyfriend at the time, some roommates and I, were renting a house in the city of La Habra California. During the move I was cleaning a lot, all through the house, even our bedroom, which has this massive day window. I deiced to vacuum our bedroom with the windows open, as not to create so much dust, and as I looked up, I could see a shadow over my left shoulder, of what looked like a female or the figure of one, she stood a little taller than me but no face, just the shadow of a person standing there.
I had assumed, my boyfriend, had come home from work early or one of our roommates had come home. I walk around the house calling for either one of them, but there was no answer. This began to worry me a little, to the point where my mind started to wonder, I began thinking to myself, and “maybe someone else, was in the house?” I continued calling around the house, but there was still no answer. I located my phone and began to call boyfriend and roommates asking them where they were. They all replied with the same answer…at work.
That very same night, our one-year-old puppy for some reason lay at the foot of our bed growling at our door. She would proceed to bark and bark, at the door, as if someone was standing right outside the door or in the room.
Then, without warning, without hesitation she ducked under our bed. She did that about three or four times throughout the entire night.
About a week later, I began to notice two sets of fingerprints. You see we have this long hallway that has this lip at the end and over the entrance way.But these weren’t small or unnoticeable, these were full-handed fingerprints, and they lead from the top to the bottom of the lip and over the walkway.
I didn’t really put two in two together, because I thought maybe this was my boyfriend playing a joke on me, so I just decided to clean it up. Three days later as I was walking down the long hall again, I found the same fingerprints in the exact same spot. Needless to say I was a little heated and confronted my boyfriend about the dirty prints in the hall. Here is where things get a little strange, he swore up and down to me that he had no idea what I was talking about. I also confronted my roommates a about the fingerprints and asked them if they knew anything about this? They too, swore up and down that they had no idea what I as talking about. So once again I wiped the fingerprints and they continued to show up.
It wasn’t till about six months later we had come to find out, through our neighbors, that there had been some happenings in the home about 20 years before we moved in. There had been an incident involving an abused child that kind of went on in the house.
So it turns out it wasn’t so much a person had died in the house but that her spirit had been left there. She liked to play tricks on us by standing over our shoulder and leaving dirty fingerprints all over the place. So it gave off a sense of playfulness and to be honest I was pretty calm once I had a sense of everything. It was a bit of a shake up for me in the beginning, but it opened me up to a lot more.
-Jerri Garcia
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